Banana cultivars

Wall MM. 2006. Ascorbic acid, vitamin A, and mineral composition of banana (Musa sp.) and papaya (Carica papaya) cultivars grown in Hawaii. J Food Comp Anal 19 434 145. 

Potatoes with rough, corky spots on skin. Cause cab. Trim out spots before using tubers. Prevent this fungal disease by keeping soil pH below 5.5 and planting resistant cultivars such as Beltsville , Norland , Onoway , Pungo , Rhinered , Russet Burbank , Russian Banana , and Superior . 

Dates provide more than 3,000 calories per kilogram Look at these striking comparisons with other fruits and foods in calories per kilogram apricot, 520 banana, 970 orange, 480 cooked rice, 1,800 wheat bread, 2,295 beef (without fat), 2,245. This tilt of the balance indicates that further horticultural research to expand production of date cultivars with high nutritional value will be important for the future food supply. Researchers with the Department of Health and Human Sciences at London Metropolitan University, in the United Kingdom, have weighed in with a published paper entitled The Fruit of the Date Palm Its Possible Use as the Best Food for the Future ... 

Variation of cultivar. Response to irradiation may differ due to variation of cultivar of a fruit or vegetable. An example is banana. Delay in ripening occurs in some varieties of bananas after irradiation. In others, no changes in ripening occur. Yet in still... 

An unusual diaryUieptanoid (4 ,6 )-l,7-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl) hepta-4,6-dien-3-one (10-177) was isolated from fruits of a banana (Musa x paradisiaca, cultivar derived from M. acuminata and M. balbisiana) together with a bicychc diaryUieptanoid, rel-(3S,4aR,10bJ )-8-hydroxy-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-9-methoxy-4a,5,... 

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